Many river systems are regulated by dams, which causes an altered flow regime and sediment deficit in the downstream reach. The Rur dam (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), constructed from 1900 to 1959, serves as a model example of the impact of a large dam in a European low mountain area...
the version of the model used in the Wise et al. study resolved demands in the buildings, industrial, and transportation sectors only at the annual scale and assumed a fixed load profile to perform the investment and dispatch algorithms on the supply side (see Supplementary Note14for details on...